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Kira Carrillo Corser
Cell: (510) 684-4651
e-mail: kiracorser@gmail.com • www.kiracorser.com
Corser’s exhibitions
become part of multi-level educational campaigns
and community outreach projects
Photographs and/or text/poems have been and are still
being used in books, newspapers, brochures, slide presentations,
commercial, cable, and public television programs, educational
videos, national conference information kits, many national
and local organization's educational or publicity print
materials, and national, state, and local magazines.
The following is a record of past media coverage showing
how Corser’s projects have become part of expansive
networks: Books, Television, Radio, Magazines and Lectures
include:
Books:
1. Pregnant Pictures: A History of images of Pregnancy
Yale University – 2001
2. When the Bough Breaks; Pregnancy and the Legacy
of Addiction – NewSage Press, Oregon –
1993
3. Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women,
Corvallis, Oregon – l990
4. Struggle To Be Borne, San Diego State University
Press – l988
5. Pacific Review, Art & Poetry,
San Diego State University Press, l988
6. Homeless, by Cheryl Gorder, Blue Bird Publishing,
and Tempe, AZ l988 – Awarded the Benjamin
Franklin Award from the Publishers
Marketing Association
7. The California Dream, The California Nightmare,”
5.2 Million People With No Health Insurance,”
Health Access, San Francisco –
1988
8. Home Street Home, published by HBO/Comic Relief,
Los Angeles and the Red Cross,
Washington DC – l984 - l986
9. New Directions, “Regional Task Force
on the Homeless,” Published by the Mayor of San
Diego
1986 - 1987
10. Steinbeck Country Revisited, 14 photographs
published in Image Maker’s Group Book in Carmel
California
and also worked as Juror in choosing
photographs in remaining book - 2003
11. Sam Iguana, Zoe and Her Wonderdog, Brave Cat named
LaMatt, and Anna’s Camel – children’s
wellness
books. Published by a grant from the
AT&T Pebble Beach Charities Monterey Peninsula Foundation
for
Monterey County distribution 2004 -2005
Television and Radio Coverage includes:
1. NBC TV, Sacramento – enlarged
ten photos to eight feet, from “A Matriot’s
Dream” and “Struggle To Be Borne,”
to use as backdrops behind President Clinton
in his nationally broadcasted “California Town
Meeting.” The artists met the President after
the broadcast and gave him a portfolio of photos and poems.
2. KPBS TV, San Diego – (a) Produced
a one-hour program on the Homeless (l985) because of the
Home Street Home Exhibit (b) Photos and poems
from Home Street Home were used in On Air Magazine,
and in distributed press kits (c) Five photos were enlarged
to 5 foot blowups and used on the Studio Set and televised
behind San Diego community leaders discussing Homelessness.
3. Comic Relief, the National HBO televised fund-raiser
– (a) Comic Relief had 250 copies of the Home Street
Home book distributed to all participating comedians and
crew, “to help them understand the different people
and problems of the homeless.” (b) The Los Angeles
Amphitheatre displayed 6 five-foot Home Street Home
photos in the halls at the time the program was televised.
4. HBO National televised interview with Senator
Kennedy – (a) Comic Relief, shipped the
Home Street Home exhibit to Washington DC, where
Senator Kennedy gave an interview concerning the homeless
in front of three Home Street Home exhibit pieces. (b)
Red Cross reprinted book to distribute to legislators.
5. Channel 8 News, San Diego –
Produced evening news coverage on the Mayor’s Fundraiser
for the Homeless. This included the Home Street Home
exhibition and a slide presentation with 40 photos from
project.
6. Two television stations in Tucson, Arizona
– (a) Recorded The Home Street Home exhibition,
and part of a speech by Senator DeConcini at the exhibit
opening. (b) BlueBird Publishing printed photos in book
titled “Homeless in America,” distributed
to schools nationally.
7. Channel 39 TV and Channel 5l TV, San Diego
– (a) Opening of permanent installation of Home
Street Home (small prints with poems) at Rachel’s
Women’s Center. (b) United Way Fundraising TV ads
and brochures “WARM” campaign.
8. KPBS TV – (a) Produced a one-hour
program on the lack of prenatal care for poor women because
of the Struggle to Be Borne exhibit and book
on the subject. (b) The Artists gave KPBS their two years
of research and community contacts for the TV program,
saving the station many hours of research time. (c) Pages
from the Struggle To Be Borne book were copied
onto videotape and aired as a five-minute promotion for
the book at the end of the “Victims At Birth”
TV Program. (d) Photos and Poems were printed in “On
Air” Magazine (e) Photos were distributed to
San Diego Newspapers and magazines as well as National
Distribution with the award winning “Victims
At Birth” Videotape. (f) Struggle to Be Borne
photos were enlarged and used as background on a TV studio
set for a one hour community outreach program discussing
prenatal care and Perinatal substance abuse in San Diego.
9. KVPT, Valley Public Television, Fresno, CA.
– (a) When The Bough Breaks photos were
used in a production called “Babies At Risk.”
(b) Photos were used by the Fresno County Perinatal Substance
Abuse Coalition (c) Photos and poems were used in Fresno
“Preview Magazine” April, l990. (d) l000
posters were produced and distributed with photos from
When the Bough Breaks as part of the KVPT community
outreach. (e) When the Bough Breaks photo enlargements
were used in the set design for the Community outreach
TV program.
10. KSBW TV, Salinas, CA – Five
minute interview on the Noon news program, with Kira Corser
discussing her photography and showing photos from Struggle
to Be Borne and When the Bough Breaks.
11. KCBA TV, Fox 35, Salinas, CA –
Half-hour interview with Kira Corser at the Struggle
To Be Borne Exhibition in Monterey.
l2. KPBS TV, San Diego, CA – Voices
& Visions poetry program (a) Included an introduction
of poet, Fran Adler and photographic artist, Kira Corser
and promotion of Home Street Home and Struggle
To Be Borne Exhibits. (b) Adler discussed prenatal
care and the Exhibit. (c) Adler read three Struggle
To Be Borne poems while video cameras moved on photographs.
l3. Vida Health Communications, Inc., Cambridge,
MA – “A Challenge to Care,”
a videotape that included photographs from When The
Bough Breaks; the Legacy of Addiction. This video
was designed for health care workers who want to help
chemically dependent women and infants.
l4. KPBS TV, San Diego, CA – The
Road To Recovery – Corser’s photos used
in a three minute introduction into a half-hour community
outreach program on women and alcohol.
l5. Sun Up San Diego, Channel 39 - Half-hour
interview and poetry reading with Fran Adler and an Aid
to Senator Killea discussing the opening of the When
The Bough Breaks; The Legacy of Addiction in the
San Diego County Administration Building and the showing
in the State Capitol Building in Sacramento.
l6. Channel 8, 5pm News, San Diego, CA
– Five Minute interview with Kira Corser on When
The Bough Breaks; The Legacy of Addiction.
l7. Nashville, Tenn. – Statewide
TV coverage on Struggle To Be Borne Exhibit and
the problems with prenatal care in Tennessee.
l8. California Statewide Cable Distribution for
news segments – produced videotape titled
“Controversy in the Capitol” about
the opening of When The Bough Breaks in Sacramento
Capitol Building.
l9. “What About Me” – Nationally
distributed March of Dimes Video –
used photos and poems from Struggle To Be Borne.
by Trey Robertson, Chattanooga, Tenn.
20. Channel 8, Salinas, California –
Broadcast on 5 PM a l5 minute news segment to Monterey
and Santa Cruz Counties “A Matriot’s Dream:
Health Care For All” interview with Kira Corser
on Jan. l5, l994.
Radio Coverage of Exhibitions:
l984 KPBS – San Diego, CA – Interview with
Adler and Corser
l987 KPBS – San Diego, CA – STBB PSA
l99l KUSP – Santa Cruz, CA – STBB PSA
l99l KAZU – Monterey, CA – STBB PSA and interview
l99l KPBS – San Diego, CA – Interview with
Adler
l990 KSDO – San Diego, CA – WTBB Promotion
at SDSU
1994 KPBS and KEZU San Diego and Monterey Bay area radio
interviews with Corser/Adler
We don’t have records of the TV and Radio coverage
in Tenn., Minn., Iowa, Idaho, Virginia, Nevada, Arizona,
Maryland, New York, Washington, Oregon, and Washington
D.C.
Slide Presentations:
Home Street Home, Struggle To Be Borne, and When The
Bough Breaks; The Legacy of Addiction slides have
been used in community outreach with organizations such
as; The California Women's Commission on Alcohol and Drug
Dependencies, the Kiwanis, The Soroptimists, the March
of Dimes, Catholic Community Services, METRO (Methodist)
Services, Episcopal Services, University lectures, County
Health Department presentations, poetry readings, a seminar
teaching "Art for Social Change," Women's Studies,
Bookstores, and in University Creative Writing, Journalism
and Public Health classes.
Posters include:
"Victims At Birth,”
KPBS Television Station, l989
"Enfoque Nacional”
celebrating Latino broadcasting, l988
"Child Abuse" –
United Way/Hewlett-Packard sponsors, l986
"Stop Teen Dropouts"
– United Way/Hewlett Packard sponsors, l986
Community Outreach on Drug and
Alcohol use during Pregnancy, Washington State 2000
Magazines and Newspapers:
Photographs have been nationally distributed for public
broadcasting programs in communities through newspapers
and magazines – These include: "The Los Angeles
Times," "The San Diego Union/Tribune Newspapers,"
On Air Magazine, TV Guide, San Diego Home/Garden Magazine
and San Diego Magazine. (PBS) The Corporation for Public
Broadcasting Annual Report, California Physicians Magazine
and March of Dimes publications and the Photo Review,
Monterey County Magazine, Crone Magazine, Healing Sources
Magazine.
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